Azed Competition No. 618 Azed Slip | ◀ 615 | 622 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 618 | Mar 1984 | CRETISM | normal | 26 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | G. Perry | Mister C’s inexactitude? | anag. & lit.; ref. Churchill |
| Second | C. Allen Baker | ‘It can’t be true!’ (It’s McEnroe, bickering, having lobbed one out) | anag. less one (rev.); ref. John M. |
| Third | R. J. Hooper | I may be swallowed by the foolish etc (and RMs?) | I in anag., & lit.; ‘tell it to the marines’ |
| VHC | M. Barley | England’s game lacks heart; how team’s finished off is sorry story | anag. of cr(ick)et m is |
| VHC | E. Chalkley | Conservative tries on Monarch’s crown even in Parliament I’m told | C + anag. + M; on = tipsy |
| VHC | M. Coates | Miscreant may have spread this, if swallowed | anag. less an2, & lit. |
| VHC | N. C. Dexter | ‘Terminological inexactitude’ (coined by Mister Churchill initially) | anag. incl. C & lit.; ref. Churchill |
| VHC | B. Franco | Heartless clue-adjudicator has listed me 1st! It can’t be true! | c, r + anag.; not far off, though – AZ |
| VHC | J. F. Grimshaw | Stuff! (That’s posture to be taken up where one is ferreted out) | cram with site (rev.) for a, & lit. |
| VHC | V. G. Henderson | What bouncer will say: ‘Settle club stir with me’ | anag. incl. C; bounce = lie |
| VHC | D. Hibbert | Idiocy to be rid of Northern Ireland? That’s absolutely untrue | creti(NI)sm |
| VHC | Mrs N. Jarman | Terminological inexactitude of Mister C | anag. & lit.; ref. Churchill |
| VHC | F. P. N. Lake | One uttered by miscreant lying outrageously? | anag. less an |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | What don’t you see in French UHT mostly? It’s nasty imported invention | anag. in crèm(e) |
| VHC | D. J. MacKay | Credit me? It’s misguided! | cr + anag., & lit. |
| VHC | Rev W. P. Manahan | There’s nothing infallible about this version of papist and Roman doctrine | RC (rev.) + et + ism; version = turning |
| VHC | S. M. Mansell | Sheer mendacity might make any heed this lie | comp. anag. |
| VHC | H. W. Massingham | Free metrics, such as hath no feet! | anag.; ‘A lie hath no feet’, adage, ref. Brewer |
| VHC | L. May | Miscreant’s undoing, if brought out | anag. less an2, & lit. |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | Little credit should be given to false items in it | cr + anag., & lit. |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Cram, heading for championship, times runs devastatingly | c + anag. incl. r; cram = lie; ref. Steve C. |
| VHC | L. G. D. Sanders | Mister C’s playful ‘terminological inexactitude’ | anag. & lit.; ref. Churchill |
| VHC | T. E. Sanders | Cram – he’s no beginner in athletics but holds exalted place | site (rev.) in Cr(a)m; cram = lie; ref. Steve C. |
| VHC | J. G. Stubbs | Bounce caught reckless smiter | c + anag.; bounce = lie |
| VHC | M. Woolf | It’s a strange miscreant who is innocent of one | anag. less an, & lit. |
| VHC | Dr E. Young | With which my ‘unbalanced’ comes out ‘symmetric’? | comp. anag. & lit. |
HCs in competition 618 awarded to: